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Japanese enters the chat:

Left: numeral; middle: regular writing; final: certain formal and non-forgery usecases.

または in point 7 means either variant is OK

The last line says one can use the modern yen sign as well (though some would argue that it’s bad manners in at least some situations, but I have no dog in that fight).

万 = 10k. Several countries use both 1k and 10k units (Japan traditionally was on the 10k side but had a lot of influence so now we see both a lot. A used car price might be 130万円 or something ( = 1,300,000 yen)

数字	通常の漢字	金額で使う旧字体（大字）  
0	零	零  
1	一	壱  
2	二	弐  
3	三	参  
4	四	肆  
5	五	伍  
6	六	陸  
7	七	柒（または 漆）  
8	八	捌  
9	九	玖  
10	十	拾  
100	百	佰  
1k	千	仟  
万	万	萬  
円	円	圓（もしくは「円」のまま）  

Chart from here that looks better: https://saiseich.com/business/kanji_kingaku/

We have a way of writing numbers in certain situations. Think of it like checks in the US where we write things in a certain way so that the numbers can’t be easily changed to increase the value or something.

The headline does say “woman with shotgun”, though :)

I mean, fuck racists and xenophobes but the piece isn’t blaming foreigners for this. At the end, it mentions them not really being attracted to izakaya and, before I lived here, I wasn’t really either. It gives a host of actual reasons in the article linked.

The title is kinda shit since it can be interpreted in more than one way (as in “Japan’s izakaya don’t attract tourists and are going out of business” instead of “japan’s izakaya are going out of business BECAUSE they don’t attract tourists” which is not what I believe the article was saying)

Edit: the actual source won’t load for me. Jin news reports it strictly as rising prices. Yahoo News only mentions they’re not seeing any benefits from the surge of inbound tourism. The rocketnews headline is bad.

Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They’re the ones doing it.

My bowl of rice comes from one prefecture over. I’d buy more locally if I could, but I prefer brown rice to white and they locally polish basically everything.

Heh, I honestly can’t remember the last ad for a game I saw. Maybe on japanese TV since I don’t get ads on YouTube where I spend most of my watching time. I’ll keep an eye out for it, though; that does make sense.

/ As I type this, I realize I’ve seen several war thunder sponsored segments in videos, but I just ignore or mute.

Does that mean something like Eve Online or an MMO actually done with spreadsheets somehow?

I enjoy watching some people play games. I cannot watch them play RPGs or similar with choices nor puzzles. Even if their puzzle solution is right in the end and mine is not, I still just get frustrated by the experience.

The app gets messed up on my Japanese LG TV every now and again (and I seem to have lost the ability to thumbs-up videos again), but it’s never been unusable. The app on my android phone looks fine at the moment.

I might be open to a new MMO at some point. I’m 100% out if it requires grouping for the main storyline, is super grindy, or I have to do corpse runs. I have two jobs and no time for that. I enjoy doing some group stuff, but I don’t want to pay for a game where I get nowhere because of my schedule.

I’d also be out if it had some parry system (quicktime events, basically) or souls-like combat in general as it’s just not my bag; I’m there for the quests and story more than anything else.

Japan set the allowed alcohol limit to basically zero sometime in the '90s so drinking anything and driving here can see you lose your license and spend time in Jail… as it should be IMO.

Maintenance is done at night and, when that’s not happening, they run freight trains. In Tokyo, last train used to be like 1:30ish on some lines and started up again a bit before 5am. Now it’s more like a bit after midnight and starting again closer to 5am. JR is a private company (a group of them, actually) and they keep squeezing things further, presumably for more profit.

They did start a bus line between nightlife areas a few years ago, but it never got popular and was closed (and also just took drunk people around from one party area to the next and not home).

Bars here in Japan are often open until first train in the big cities (~5am) with some going later. I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with that in itself (especially for late shift folks who want to enjoy the same after-work experiences as day shift folks).

That said, fuck this guy for many other reasons.

Prepositions still causing havok 70ish years later (and I’m struggling in the opposite direction learning Norwegian now)

My shoes are by my front door so both socks first makes sense; there’s no reason to carry. But not wear, my socks to the entryway

Except when looking for a new job and now so are 8k other people :/

The Evil Dead Guy.

One Guy of Darkness.

None in my village. I’m not sure if that’s fortunate or unfortunate. We definitely have bears that come within a couple KM of my house.

It only bothered me because I saw that it was a school assignment and I thought it would be to a higher standard. In casual speech, I don’t really care unless the meaning is unclear.

I don’t knowingly use AI at all in my person life and projects (I say ‘knowingly’ since many products have it shoved inside now, but I disable all I see). At work, we have AI code reviews which, as a concept, I think is fine and useful.